#  Preserving the Future: Harvard’s Weissman Center focusing on its next 20 years 

 





June 25, 2020

 

 

 Twenty years ago, you might have found Debora Mayer at her worktable in Harvard’s campus center, bent over a fragile 17th-century drawing. She would be carefully marking a photocopy of the drawing, recording each place the original document had been repaired, and eventually moving on to the next item in a steady rhythm of independent work.

 Mayer, who is now the Helen H. Glaser Senior Paper Conservator at the [Weissman Preservation Center](/weissman-preservation-center), works a bit differently today. She prepares collections for treatment using high-resolution, digitally scanned images, which are then entered into a database to preserve records of how and when items were treated.

 [Continue reading about the 20th Anniversary of the Weissman Preservation Center.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/weissman-preservation-center-celebrates-20th-anniversary/)



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Conservation ](/hlps-tags/conservation)
 
 

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